Collegiate Gothic: the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Campus Architecture?

An interesting question asked by Chronicle reporter Lawrence Biemiller:

A couple of weeks ago I made an unplanned visit to a college that it’s probably best to leave unnamed. It’s an institution whose campus I hadn’t seen in 20 years or so, and time didn’t seem to have done it many favors. I drove past one clunky, knockoff-Gothic building after another, until finally I was forced to confront what may be one of the central questions of campus planning in America today: Is Collegiate Gothic the single worst thing that ever happened to campus architecture in America?